Paramedic - Cowes Medical Centre

One Wight Health; Ryde; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider on the Isle of Wight is seeking a Paramedic to provide essential care to housebound patients. The role requires strong clinical skills and a compassionate approach to patient care in a community setting. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, making clinical decisions, and working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates should have a degree in paramedicine, HCPC registration, and excellent communication skills. This position offers 30 to 37.5 hours per week, emphasizing teamwork and continuous improvement in patient care.

Benefits

Free parking

Support for training and skill development

Qualifications

• Full UK driving licence required.
• Experience working to protocols/guidelines and with patient groups.
• Excellent clinical skills with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Conduct visits to housebound patients.
• Assess and diagnose medical conditions.
• Communicate sensitive information to patients and relatives.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to manage time effectively

Clinical judgement

Education

Degree/diploma level in paramedicine

Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

SystmOne

Job description

Paramedic

The closing date is 18 January 2026

Job summary

Please note: This vacancy is being advertised by One Wight Health Ltd - GP Federation, on behalf of Cowes Medical Centre.

Cowes Medical Centre will be the employer for this post.

Hours: 30 to 37.5 hours per week

Salary: Dependent on experience - general practice pay rates

This is a chance to work in a caring environment where your contribution truly matters. We are looking for someone who finds patient care in the community and working as a team rewarding. The role can be very demanding at times so we are looking for someone who is also resilient. You will need to have the qualifications and technical experience as detailed in the person specification. Prior experience of working in general practice is not essential, but a keen interest in developing clinical skills in this area is. We will help you to gain the skills and attributes needed to become an excellent primary care paramedic.

Main duties of the job

As a paramedic you will be at the heart of the care provided to our housebound patients. This may involve acute and chronic illness and proactive care for our moderately frail patients, often working together with their family or carers. To do this you will work to protocols ensuring best and safe care.

About us

We are a multi‑disciplinary team of GPs, ANPs, MHP, paramedics, nurses, GP (healthcare) assistants, pharmacist, social prescriber, dietitian, wellbeing coach, MSK practitioners, phlebotomists and administrative and cleaning staff who all work closely together to deliver excellent patient‑centred care. Every team member is valued, and we encourage open communication, mutual respect and shared learning.

We provide care to just over 15,500 patients from a modern, purpose‑built building with free parking, disabled access and an attached (independent) pharmacy on‑site. The work environment is fast‑paced, where change and continuous improvement is the norm. Our next exciting change is that we will merge with Newport Health Centre. This merger will bring together two well‑established practices into a single, stronger organisation better positioned to meet the challenges we all face. We believe this step will strengthen our ability to deliver high quality, sustainable care for our patients and supportive working environments for our teams.

We value homemade cake, teamwork, innovation, and continuous improvement in a supportive atmosphere. Joining us means being part of a practice that makes a real difference in the health and wellbeing of our community.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The main responsibility of the paramedic team is to conduct visits to house bound patients living in their own home or in a care home, in a way that supports the best use of available resources. This will predominantly be for acute and chronic illness, and for proactive care for moderately frail patients. Dependent on experience this may also include your own clinic(s) at the practice for acute presentations. Experience in a primary care setting is desirable, not essential, with induction and training supported by the Practice.

To thrive in this role, you will enjoy all aspects of patient care and working in the community with lots of patient contact. All candidates must have the qualifications and technical experience required as detailed in the person specification.

• Assess, diagnose and treat patients (over 16 years of age) for a range of acute, and chronic medical conditions as appropriate.
• Make careful clinical judgements eg first contact with patients presenting acutely and manage care in the presence and absence of protocols.
• Conduct home visits to the housebound in the community.
• Conduct weekly ward rounds for care homes, liaising with GPs as appropriate.
• Make decisions where precedents do not exist, where appropriate without recourse to others e.g. directly admit patients you have seen to secondary care hospital in acute medical need.
• Refer patients you have seen to other members of the multidisciplinary team, secondary care and to other statutory and voluntary organisations as appropriate, including referral for x‑ray.
• Interpret a range of diagnostic tests and routine clinical procedures, informing or referring to a GP as appropriate.
• Work with patients, and their families as appropriate, on anticipatory care (if not under register for the Proactive Care team) through to end of life support.
• Work within professional boundaries, guidelines and codes of conduct.
• Work within all relevant practice policies and procedural guidelines e.g. infection control, chaperoning, risk management and support improvements to service delivery.
• Undertake extended and supplementary prescribing, providing you have the necessary qualifications.
• Communicate highly sensitive condition related information to patients, relatives and carers.
• Initiate the process of diagnosis with patients suspected to have a chronic disease eg. diabetes, COPD, asthma, IHD referring to other clinical staff as appropriate.
• Contribute to Practice targets both local and national within the disease management agenda eg QOF, prescribing incentive scheme, and support the review and management of disease registers.
• Support vaccination programmes (flu and Covid) for housebound patients.
• Audit outcomes of care against standards and initiate changes as necessary.
• Undertake annual review of patients understanding and ability to self‑manage, and medication reviews (if qualified to do so).
• Actively implement safeguarding protocols for vulnerable adults and know who to refer to and how to escalated concerns.
• Make effective use of the clinical system by ensuring the consistent and accurate entering of data and use of Read Codes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration.
• Degree/diploma level in paramedicine.
• A full UK driving licence is required.

Desirable

• Prescribing qualification.

Experience

Essential

• Completed two‑year consolidation learning period as a newly qualified paramedic & has a further 3 years experience at Band 6 paramedic.
• Working towards developing masters level or equivalent capability in paramedic areas of practice, and within 6 months of commencement of reimbursement has completed and been signed off formally within the clinical pillar competencies of the paramedic FCP/AP roadmap to practice.
• Have experience of working to protocols / guidelines and patient groups / patient specific directives.
• Excellent clinical skills.
• Good keyboard skills & Microsoft office.

Desirable

• Experience in a primary care setting.
• Previous knowledge of SystmOne.

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Develops own knowledge and practice to meet objectives/changes in service, through attendance on study days, self‑directed learning and reflection on practice.
• Integrates theory into practice and establishes formal links with educational institutions.
• Operates high standards of probity.

Qualities & Attributes

Essential

• Have the ability to make clear decisions with confidence and communicate these effectively.
• Excellent communication skills across the range of stakeholders and patients.
• Enthusiastic and adaptable to change.

Other requirements

Essential

• Work autonomously / accountable for own professional actions.
• Makes operational judgements, manages conflicting views and reconciles inter and intra professional differences of opinion.
• Builds and communicates therapeutic working relationships with a wide array of statutory and voluntary organisations for the benefit of patient care and facilitates good working relationships.
• Partakes in clinical supervision for own development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

One Wight Health Ltd

Address

Cowes Medical Centre

200 Newport Road

Cowes

Isle Of Wight

PO31 7ER